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Learning Photoshop CS3
Dynamic Learning: Photoshop CS3 is part of the O'Reilly Dynamic Learning series, a comprehensive, integrated learning environment that combines books with video tutorials and online resources. Written and produced by product experts and trainers who have produced many of Adobe's training titles, the book, along with the Digital Classroom video tutorials on the DVD, takes you step-by-step through the process of learning to use Photoshop CS3 like a pro on your Mac or PC.
This full-color book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, self-study exercises, and review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially or just focus on individual lessons.
Topics covered include:
What's new in Photoshop CS3 Bridge Camera Raw Making Selections Painting and Retouching Layers, Smart Objects, and Smart Filters Creating graphics for video and the Web
The companion DVD included with the book includes video tutorials and all of the lesson files, with starting images, additional elements, and the final, completed image files. A free Instructor's Guide is available online in PDF format.
This full-color book is organized into lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, self-study exercises, and review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially or just focus on individual lessons.
Topics covered include:
What's new in Photoshop CS3 Bridge Camera Raw Making Selections Painting and Retouching Layers, Smart Objects, and Smart Filters Creating graphics for video and the Web
The companion DVD included with the book includes video tutorials and all of the lesson files, with starting images, additional elements, and the final, completed image files. A free Instructor's Guide is available online in PDF format.
360 pages, Paperback
First published July 16, 2007
9 people want to read
About the author
Jennifer Smith
91 books1 followerI’m Jennifer Smith – a designer, educator, and author. I’ve written more than one dozen books on digital imaging and Web publishing, including the recently published Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom, Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom and the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium for Dummies and Wireframing and Prototyping with Expression Blend Sketchflow. I’ve done extensive work for corporations such as Adobe Systems and Microsoft, and last year traveled more than 100,000 miles visiting clients in Europe, Asia, Africa, and all around the United States. I deliver training and consulting for Fortune 100 companies, universities, and many independent software vendors.
I work extensively on designing and creating interactive applications and sites using Expression Blend and other Expression Studio applications. You can find many of my training guides and videos on Microsoft.com. I’m also the co-founder of the American Graphics Institute.
I work extensively on designing and creating interactive applications and sites using Expression Blend and other Expression Studio applications. You can find many of my training guides and videos on Microsoft.com. I’m also the co-founder of the American Graphics Institute.
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March 20, 2009
The Dynamic Learning series, which includes a series of "How To" books for the Adobe CS3 (now CS4) software was an expensive book that brought much less than I had anticipated and hoped for.
If you want to learn how to do something in Photoshop and that's it...this book is great. BUT, if you wan to learn how to do something in Photoshop, know why you did it that way, and what the tools you are using "mean" or can do, move on.
At $44.99, I expected a much more in-depth explanation on tasks, rather than "1) Choose File > New...2) Choose Default Photoshop Size from the Preset drop-down menu. 3) If the layers pallette is not visible, choose Window > Layers. Click on the Layers tab and drag it out...Select the rectangular marquee tool and click and drag to contrain the marquee selection to a square"...yadda yadda yadda.
On and on, monotonous instructions step-by-step on how to do tasks with no meaning behind them. Keep looking for another book, I just don't think it is worth the price.
If you want to learn how to do something in Photoshop and that's it...this book is great. BUT, if you wan to learn how to do something in Photoshop, know why you did it that way, and what the tools you are using "mean" or can do, move on.
At $44.99, I expected a much more in-depth explanation on tasks, rather than "1) Choose File > New...2) Choose Default Photoshop Size from the Preset drop-down menu. 3) If the layers pallette is not visible, choose Window > Layers. Click on the Layers tab and drag it out...Select the rectangular marquee tool and click and drag to contrain the marquee selection to a square"...yadda yadda yadda.
On and on, monotonous instructions step-by-step on how to do tasks with no meaning behind them. Keep looking for another book, I just don't think it is worth the price.
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